154. We have no right to consume happiness without producing it. (Bernard Shaw)           44. If you do a good deed with difficulty, the difficulty will pass, but the good will remain. But if you do a bad deed with pleasure, the pleasure will pass, but the bad will remain. (M. Lomonosov)           203. The effort a person makes to conceal their shortcomings is greater than the effort needed to get rid of them.           231. The voice of a clear conscience is sweeter than a hundred voices of glory.           212. Exercise can replace many medicines. But no medicine in the world can replace exercise.           217. One of the most astonishing misconceptions is the misconception that happiness lies in doing nothing.           206. Change your opinions, keep your principles: change your leaves, keep your roots. (Victor Hugo)           71. A clear mind gives to the soul what health gives to the body. (J. La Bruyère)           15. The thoughts of living beings are similar – they all strive for what is pleasant and avert what is unpleasant. Understand this and do not do to others what you yourself do not desire. (Vedas)           138. Victories are prepared before battles begin.           157. "We have what we need if we use what we have." (Dr. Edgar Kahn)           170. If there is the highest of pleasures, it is the pleasure of creation. (N. Gogol)           26. Politeness is the hygiene of human relations. (A. Kruglov)           120. Family interests almost always ruin public interests.           49. Whose army is the strongest is the peacemaker.           132. The awareness of one's own strength multiplies it. (J. La Bruyère)           173. Labor is the consumption of mechanical and mental work accumulated in the body, which results in an increase in the amount of convertible energy on the earth's surface. (S. A. Podolinsky)           137. Wisdom has no need of violence.           119. You call yourself free. Free from what, or free for what? (F. Nietzsche)           55. The fact that someone is worse than you does not make you better. (V. Borisov)           38. He who does not punish evil contributes to its commission. (L. da Vinci)           89. The lazy are always planning to do something. (L. Vauvenargues)           5. We give advice by the bucketful and take it by the drop.           46. Any skirmish with a deaf-mute, an idiot, or a teenager is fraught with anxiety, for you are responsible for it, but they are not. (Mishnah)           111. A person who cannot sacrifice the personal for the sake of a greater goal will achieve nothing in life.           136. It is easier to say a new word than to reconcile words already spoken. (J. La Bruyère)           113. People are lonely because instead of bridges, they build walls. (NN)           99. Excessive pride is the sign of a worthless soul. (I. Turgenev)           68. Don't talk about triumph before victory. (Publius Syrus)           91. All malice is the result of weakness.           192. We are never so grateful for anything as for gratitude. (M. Ebner-Eschenbach)           215. Carelessness is most often the source of misfortune. (P. Velleius)           162. With agreement, small things grow; without agreement, great things collapse. (Sallust)           69. Brevity is the sister of wit. (A. Chekhov)           40. You cannot make a villain good. No matter how much you wash your anus, it will not become an eye. (Vedas)           112. You cannot belittle a person without being humbled by him. (D. Washington)           211. You can't heal the body without healing the soul. (Socrates)           236. If the state is governed correctly, poverty and low birth are shameful. If the state is governed incorrectly, then poverty and high birth are also shameful. (Confucius)           188. Human relationships are a mutually beneficial egoism.           213. Those whom medicines don't cure, nature cures.           122. Parents work, children enjoy life, grandchildren are beggars. (Japanese proverb)           51. All the world's problems arise from the fact that fools and fanatics are always overconfident, while intelligent people are full of doubts. (Bernard Russell)           183. What the soul desires, the hands will follow.           106. Learning is most intolerable in a fool.           218. By caring for the happiness of others, we find our own. (Plato)           129. Whatever others think of you, do what you think is right. (Pythagoras)           148. All information should be adapted to the perception of society.           25. Life is not so short that people do not have time for politeness. (R. Emerson)           108. No one is smart enough alone. (Titus Plautus)           146. Our dignity lies not in the mastery of space, but in the ability to think rationally. I do not become richer, no matter how much land I acquire, because with space the Universe embraces and absorbs me, but with thought I embrace the Universe. (B. Pascal)           171. He who has experienced the joy of creativity, for him all other pleasures no longer exist. (A. Chekhov)           66. Everyone complains about their memory, but no one complains about their mind. (F. La Rochefoucauld)           142. I treat people well because I expect nothing good from them. (O. Brik)           141. Hate the bad in a person, but love him. (L. Tolstoy)           16. He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth, and he who gives to the rich, will become poor. (Bible, Proverbs, Chapter 22:16)           186. Today, as soon as you approach a door, it opens automatically; as soon as you approach a person, he automatically closes. (P. Salvorsen)           149. There are countries that were once rich and were reduced to near-deserts, but such events were too clearly dependent on economic mismanagement. (S. A. Podolinsky)           32. If anyone wants to rebel alone against the universe, I advise him to flee, as Timon did, into the desert and there, in solitude, enjoy his wisdom. (Erasmus of Rotterdam)           123. There is nothing more shameful than being useless to society and to oneself, and having the intelligence to do nothing.           96. Insults are the arguments of the unjust.           193. We are religious enough to hate each other, but not religious enough to love each other. (D. Swift)           233. A capable administrator will propose or carry out the transfer of personnel, changes in reporting, restructuring of the apparatus, etc. (V. I. Lenin)           90. Anger is a momentary madness.           130. Do well, and let them say what they want. (A. Dumas, père)           133. Success depends largely on the state of one's own spirit, on the firmness of one's intentions, and on the inflexibility of one's character.           70. The path of precepts is long, but short and successful is example. (Seneca)           4. Destroy the social side of a person, and you'll get a ferocious orangutan. (A. Herzen)           58. When self-interest is the only motive, malice multiplies.           41. When a thief, caught by Demosthenes, said to him, "I didn't know this was yours," Demosthenes replied, "But you knew it wasn't yours." (Demosthenes)           102. For most people, conscience is nothing more than a fear of the opinions of others. (D. Taylor)           239. Rulers need wise men far more than wise men need rulers.           164. He who wants, does; he who does not, shows off. (N. Vekshin)           167. Generosity consists not in giving a lot, but in giving at the right time. (J. La Bruyère)           195. Through art, spirit speaks to spirit; matter is only the avenue through which communication takes place. (G. Grimm)           140. If strength is united with justice, what could be stronger than this union? (Eskil)           84. Ignorance is the twilight where evil lurks. (V. Hugo)           238. To govern is to do right. If in governing you do right, who will dare to do wrong? (Confucius)           230. Diligence is the mother of success. (M. Cervantes)           92. A lie is a very inadequate substitute for the truth, yet it is still widely circulated among people. (M. Larney)           21. All the fine feelings in the world weigh less than one good deed. (D. Lowell)           107. He who asks nothing will learn nothing. (T. Fuller)           229. If you don't succeed right away, try again and again. And then calm down and live for your own pleasure. (K. Fields)           248. It is incorrect to call the planet Earth, since most of it is ocean, not land.           224. Even those who want to make others happy by force are oppressors. (D. Eremić)           77. He who has not found it in himself will find no peace anywhere. (F. La Rochefoucauld)           241. If you demand a reward that exceeds your merits and it is refused, blame yourself, for you asked for more than your due. (Abu al-Faraj)           159. Weak people wait for favorable opportunities, strong people create them. (A. Afinogenov)           104. Those who wear blinders should remember that the kit also includes a bit and a whip. (E. Lets)           156. Our purpose is not to seek better situations elsewhere, but to make better the ones we find ourselves in.           234. To govern a multitude of people, it is better to be humane than arrogant, and better to be merciful than cruel. (N. Machiavelli)           223. If one or two kind words can make a person happy, one would have to be a scoundrel to deny them. (T. Penn)           245. War… is just for those for whom it is inevitable, and arms are pious in the hands of those who have no hope left. (Machiavelli, The Prince)           205. Man really is like a monkey: the higher he climbs, the more he shows his backside.           94. When a person has embarked on the path of deception, he is inevitably forced to pile one lie upon another.           207. If weapons breed crime, then pencils breed grammatical errors.           143. It often happens that it is better to ignore an insult than to avenge it later.           124. He who fans the flames of strife and stirs up the firebrands should not complain if sparks fall in his face.           121. A special kind of slavery, both in society and in the family, is spiritual slavery, when the strong will of one paralyzes the will of another, turning them into unthinking stand-ins.           42. Violence feeds on submission, like fire on straw. (V. Korolenko)           18. You must make good out of evil, because there is nothing else to make it out of. (R. Warren)           73. When too much energy is spent on promises, too little remains for fulfillment. (K. Simonov)           147. The people need not abstract ideas, but truisms. (A. Rivarol)           75. A man who does not think about what may happen in the future will certainly soon encounter sorrows. (Confucius)           76. And before consulting with whim, consult with your purse. (Benjamin Franklin)           35. The crime of the wicked is a temptation for many. (W. Feder)           60. Success gives many things, but not friends. (J. La Bruyère)           126. He who does nothing himself loves to lecture others. (Mongolian proverb)           79. Life is a comedy for him who thinks, and a tragedy for him who feels. (Epicurus)           20. A good deed is performed with effort; but when the effort is repeated several times, it becomes a habit.           235. To govern people, one needs intelligence. (N. Chamfort)           135. He who has the courage to confess his actions must find peace. (F. La Rochefoucauld)           33. Two things make a man godlike: living for the good of society and truthfulness. (Pythagoras)           97. Cunning is a sign of a narrow-minded mind. (F. La Rochefoucauld)           23. Let him who has done a good deed be silent. Let him who has received it speak. (Seneca)           95. The surest sign of truth is simplicity and clarity. A lie is always complex, pretentious, and verbose. (L. Tolstoy)           210. A man digs his own grave with a knife and fork. (Old proverb)           118. Reason is given to man so that he may live wisely, and not merely so that he may see that he lives foolishly. (V. Belinsky)           172. There are two incentives to work in the broad sense of the word: need, the sad necessity of working for a living, the curse of labor inflicted on the seed of Adam, condemned to eat their daily bread by the sweat of their brow. And there is another incentive: the thirst for interesting, enjoyable, exciting work—work that provides inner satisfaction. Such work "to the soul" is usually creative work in the broadest sense. (V. Vorovsky)           116. A fool pursues pleasures and finds them; a wise man only avoids grief. (A. Schopenhauer)           202. A promising person promises much, but delivers nothing.           242. The whole secret of business is to know something that no one else knows. (A. Onassis)           181. The madness of one is an aberration, the madness of the crowd is fashion.           48. If swindlers knew all the advantages of honesty, they would stop cheating for profit.           176. Time is money.           243. Cooperation, not competition, must be the motto of humanity if humanity is to survive. (Margrit Kennedy)           247. Nature knows no goals; it can only count results. (S. A. Podolinsky)           36. Unpunished evil increases. (Vedas)           166. Do you know what you must do to keep up? You must move forward.           134. Good taste speaks less of intelligence than of clarity of judgment. (F. La Rochefoucauld)           185. A recession is when your neighbor loses his job; a crisis is when you lose your job. (H. Truman)           59. If you feel no love for others, sit quietly.           131. The ability to speak distinguishes people from the animal world; the ability to remain silent distinguishes man from the world of men. (G. Landau)           105. Folly never crosses boundaries. Wherever it steps, there lies its territory. (E. Lets)           22. The reward for a good deed is its performance.           127. When busy, people speak only when they have something to say, but when idle, the need to talk incessantly arises.           200. A person is like a fraction: its numerator is what he is, and the denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.           54. A noble man blames himself, a mean man blames others. (Confucius)           222. Of all the paths that lead to happiness, the surest are work and perseverance. (L. Reybaud)           182. Everyone can find freedom if only they know how to limit themselves and find themselves. (W. Goethe)           125. By doing nothing, people learn to do evil. (Latin proverb)           219. To be happy, one must constantly strive for this happiness and accept it. It depends not on circumstances, but on oneself.           199. There are people who do something decent – ​​and smugly tell the whole world about it. And thus they remain pleasantly busy their entire lives. (V. Belinsky)           145. One of the first precautions is to balance desires and possibilities. (S. Mikhalkov)           117. To err in nothing is a characteristic of the gods. (Demosthenes)           174. God gave us relatives; thank God that we can choose our friends.           13. If people achieve inner harmony, they will achieve harmony in the family, and if they achieve harmony in the family, harmony will reign in the state.           150. If a society bases its well-being and development on a limited, constantly diminishing resource, then a global problem of the sustainability of human development arises. (S. A. Podolinsky)           100. Wealth is the savings of many in the hands of one. (Y. Tuwim)           115. If you trust too much, you can be deceived, but if you trust too little, you condemn yourself to constant torment. (B. Crane)           208. No amount of reasoning can show a person a path he does not want to see. (R. Rolland)           103. An oath is a guarantee, useless with honest people and deceptive with others. (A. Decourcelle)           237. When the state is governed according to reason, poverty and want are shameful; When a state is not governed according to reason, riches and honors are shameful. (Confucius)           74. A person who tries to change others is wasting his time if he has not started with himself. (I. Loyola)           110. If no one loves you, rest assured it is your own fault. (F. Doddridge)           220. The fool seeks happiness afar; the wise man cultivates it close to him. (R. Oppenheim)           179. Ideas become a material force if they take hold of the masses.           80. It is easy to criticize an author, difficult to appreciate him. (J. La Bruyère)           155. A person can only claim as much joy and happiness as he gives to others.           153. There are two paths to rise in this world: through one's own hard work or at the expense of others' stupidity.           214. Happiness makes friends, misfortune tests them. (Publius Syrus)           83. It is typical of a bad person to praise and criticize the same things. (Latin proverb)           198. There are people who prefer to think about bees stinging than about them producing honey. (E. Krotky)           187. People could not live in society if they did not lead each other by the nose. (Laroche Foucault)           30. Mercy is preferable to justice.           175. Time hates to be wasted. (Henry Ford)           196. A family is a group of people united by blood ties and divided over money matters. (E. Ray)           221. After those who occupy the highest positions, I know of no more unhappy people than those who envy them. (F. Maintenon)           209. Before jumping to conclusions, make sure you're looking at things from the other side.           52. A wise man demands everything only of himself, but a worthless man demands everything from others. (Chinese Proverb)           50. Although we think we live in a democracy, over time it will turn out to be an oligarchy at best, and a fascist regime at worst, since money in the hands of an ever-increasing number of people cannot be politically controlled. (Margrit Kennedy)           72. Where style is obscure, error reigns. (A. Rivarol)           87. Laziness is the daughter of wealth and the mother of poverty. (A. Decoussal)           114. Foolish people believe in luck, strong people in cause and effect. (R. Emerson)           240. Desire is the measure of value. (B. Gracian)           244. The greatest obstacle to transforming the monetary system is the fact that very few understand the problem, and even fewer know that a solution exists. (Margrit Kennedy)           139. What you sow in youth, you will reap in maturity. (G. Ibsen)           57. A noble man knows only duty, a base man knows only self-interest. (Confucius)           1. We have little faith in what we find unpleasant to believe. (Ovid)           204. Flattery is the honey and seasoning in all communication between people. (Erasmus of Rotterdam)           228. True glory consists in doing what is worth doing and writing what is worth reading. (Pliny)           109. Only fools and the dead never change their minds. (D. Lowam)           232. When there are too many helmsmen, the ship will be stranded. (A. Fayol)           61. Before you say something to others, say it to yourself.           189. We like other people's things better, others like ours. (Publius Syrus)           39. For evil to triumph, only one condition is necessary: ​​for good people to sit idle. (E. Burke)           37. The greatest encouragement to crime is impunity. (Cicero)           9. Better to learn late than never. (Aesop)           62. Saying is not doing. (Publilius Syrus)           88. Laziness, like rust, corrodes faster than labor wears it out. (B. Franklin)           201. As soon as an action is explained by complex reasoning, be sure that it is bad. (L. Tolstoy)           24. Remorse begins where impunity ends. (K. Helvetsky)           65. Do not argue with chatterboxes: speech is given to everyone, reason to few. (A. Claudius)           101. If you are told, "My wealth was acquired through hard work," ask, "Whose?" (Don Marquis)           144. Moderation multiplies the joys of life. (Democritus)           191. Trust given usually evokes loyalty in return. (T. Livy)           53. A wise man differs from a fool in that he thinks to the end. (A. Maikov)           2. It's difficult to add new thoughts to a head full of stereotypes.           180. Ideas can be neutralized only by ideas.           226. If the amount of energy conserved always corresponded to all the needs of all people, then, of course, there would be neither want nor distress on Earth. (S. A. Podolinsky)           161. People are born to help each other, as a hand helps a hand, a foot helps a foot, and the upper jaw helps the lower. (M. Aurelius)           128. Never hold people by the button or the hand to make them listen to you; if they don't want to listen to you, better hold your tongue. (F. Chesterton)           8. The only condition on which success depends is patience. (L. Tolstoy)           158. A person is his own creditor and the issuing center of his money, or rather, the subject of his energetic obligations to others. (V.P.)           178. The invasion of armies can be resisted, but the invasion of ideas cannot be resisted.           246. And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. (John 8:32)           151. Agriculture depletes the soil only when it is conducted unwisely, in a predatory manner. (S. A. Podolinsky)           225. In the day of prosperity, make use of the good, but in the day of adversity, reflect. (Ecclesiastes 7:14)           12. Disrespect for ancestors is the first sign of immorality.           85. Hatred and flattery are the pitfalls on which truth is broken.           6. Schoolteachers wield power that prime ministers can only dream of. (W. Churchill)           197. People are stubborn; they disagree with the most sound judgments not from a lack of insight, but from an excess of pride: they see that the front ranks in a just cause are taken, and they don't want to occupy the back.           27. Nothing costs us so little and is valued so highly as politeness. (M. Cervantes)           163. Each person is like a letter in the alphabet; to form a word, one must merge with others. (O. Maldestam)           29. He who does not commit injustice is honorable; but more honorable is he who does not allow others to commit injustice. (Plato)           93. A lie does not cease to be a lie because millions of people use it. (Leo Tolstoy)           190. The better the means of communication, the further man is from man. (J. Kurek)           160. Each person should be expected to give what he can.           82. You do harm if you praise; but even more harm if you criticize what you yourself understand little about. (L. da Vinci)           45. If you try to please everyone, you will end up pleasing no one. (A. Graf)           28. Gratitude is the result of a high level of moral development. You will not find it among ill-mannered people. (S. Johnson)           34. Do not fear your enemies: at worst, they can kill you. Do not fear your friends: at worst, they can betray you. Fear the indifferent, for with their tacit consent, treason and murder exist on earth. (B. Jasensky)           86. No one hurries others like the lazy: having indulged their laziness, they want to seem diligent. (F. La Rochefoucauld)           81. To criticize is to show the author that he does not do what I would do if I knew how. (K. Čapek)           56. Referring to the bad actions of others is like washing yourself in mud. (J. Pshi-Sen)           165. He who wants to do something finds a means. He who does not want to do anything finds an excuse. (Arabic proverb)           17. What people call fate is, in essence, only the sum of their own stupid actions. (A. Schopenhauer)           43. A thief is not only someone who illegally took what they need, but also someone who keeps what they don't need for themselves, not giving it to others.           47. We are just when we are not self-interested! (B. Constant)           63. Language is our tool; when using it, we must take care that its springs do not creak. (A. Rivarol)           10. The function of science in the life of society is to ensure governance in all areas of social activity in accordance with a specific concept given to society by the holders of conceptual power. (USSR Supreme Soviet)           7. Once you've silenced a man, you haven't convinced him. (D. Morley)           177. Nothing travels faster than word of mouth. (Seneca)           227. Titles and honors are invented for those whose services to the country are indisputable, but unknown to the people of that country. (B. Shaw)           11. The amount of convertible energy introduced by a teacher into the budget of humanity can be quite significant. Suppose that, by teaching the peasants of his community arithmetic, the teacher frees them from a whole series of petty deceptions. (S. A. Podolinsky)           19. Virtue and vice, moral good and evil, in all countries are determined by whether a given phenomenon is useful or harmful to society. (Voltaire)           3. The well-being of a people, the optimal structure of society, and the future of a country are determined by the existing level of community, which should be fostered by the system of upbringing and education. Without community, there will be nothing.           78. The same means that enable a man to become rich prevent him from enjoying his wealth. (B. Pascal)           184. You work for others, but the skill remains with you. (Kyrgyz proverb)           31. Admit a wise man to a banquet, and he will immediately confuse everyone with sullen silence or inappropriate questions. (Erasmus of Rotterdam)           67. A person's character has more flaws than his mind. (F. La Rochefoucauld)           64. The worse the wheel, the louder it creaks. (A. Rivarol)           194. The criterion of truth is experience. (T. Campanella)           169. All my efforts have been aimed at reducing stupidity and increasing honesty in people. (Walter)           216. Happiness, like health, is there when you don't notice it.           98. Cunning helps only once, and then only hinders.           14. Any human action that conflicts with moral principles does not go unpunished: if you take, it will be taken from you; if you give, it will be given to you; if you do nothing, nothing will be done to you; If you destroy, you will be destroyed; if you create, you will be created for. Where you begin, so will you end, and if you do not witness the retribution yourself, your children and grandchildren will.           168. Let generosity never exceed opportunity. (Publius Syrus)           152. Only a society with a desire to quickly accumulate energy can move forward quickly. (S. A. Podolinsky)